[games_access] Message Boards Instead of Meetings?

[hinn at uiuc.edu]

awesome! thanks richard! now sander can stop complaining about
our online meetings...finally! ;) but what WILL we do with all
that money... (ok, that was a gdc inside joke)

yeah, let's give this a try and see how well we do with this
new style of forums/mailing lists/fewer online meetings --
we've got so many things going on it's worth doing an
experiment to help with communication!

michelle

---- Original message ----
>Date: Thu, 11 May 2006 23:51:50 +0200
>From: "AudioGames" <richard at audiogames.net>  
>Subject: Re: [games_access] Message Boards Instead of Meetings?  
>To: "IGDA Games Accessibility SIG Mailing List"
<games_access at igda.org>
>Cc: info at ebass.nl
>
>Great, no problem, we can set it up tomorrow!
>
>----- Original Message ----- 
>From: <hinn at uiuc.edu>
>To: "IGDA Games Accessibility SIG Mailing List"
<games_access at igda.org>
>Sent: Thursday, May 11, 2006 11:38 PM
>Subject: Re: [games_access] Message Boards Instead of Meetings?
>
>
>> hey reid and everyone,
>> 
>> that sounds great and would take care of all the problem of
>> scheduling meetings on an international scale.
>> 
>> here's my suggestion (based on reid's suggestions) -- let's
>> have a forum on game-accessibility.com since we're partnered
>> with them (and if richard and sander are ok with it!) then
>> we'd start to have a more obvious and formal connection with
>> them as a sig. then we can keep track of all the different
>> threads (and avoid the t-shirt fiasco). i'll manage the
>> overall forum and then maybe we can have sub-managers for
>> different projects. 
>> 
>> can someone step up to serve as co-manager and summary person
>> who posts links to important new threads in the forum on this
>> list so that people know to go look at the latest sig project
>> news? that will take a lot off my plate as i continue to get
>> reports out and such.
>> 
>> then, as always, cool articles, meeting announcements, general
>> non-sig business stuff will still occur here on this
mailing list.
>> 
>> then, once a month we'll have "live meetings" for those who
>> want to discuss things synchronously. but with the forum, as
>> reid suggests, a cancelled or missed meeting won't be the end
>> of sig progress.
>> 
>> sound good??
>> 
>> michelle
>> 
>> ---- Original message ----
>>>Date: Thu, 11 May 2006 14:26:12 -0700
>>>From: "Reid Kimball" <rkimball at gmail.com>  
>>>Subject: [games_access] Message Boards Instead of Meetings?  
>>>To: "IGDA Games Accessibility SIG Mailing List"
>> <games_access at igda.org>
>>>
>>>Hello all,
>>>
>>>I'd like to talk about the issues of meetings and how we can
>> discuss
>>>important topics and create agendas for our group. I'm a
>> concerned
>>>about all the missed/canceled meetings we've had over time.
>> I'm to
>>>blame as well, I'll forget about them or I'm busy with work,
>> etc. I
>>>think if we used a dedicated message board we can talk about
>> important
>>>agendas and stay focused on the goals of the group at
large. I'm
>>>willing to setup the msg board at my website in a sub domain
>> such as:
>>>
>>>http://gasig.rbkdesign.com/
>>>
>>>or anything else you may prefer. I'll also provide
moderation and
>>>administration privledges to the core members of the SIG so
>> that it
>>>isn't dependent on me to be running smoothly.
>>>
>>>If Richard and Sanders would prefer to setup a msg board at
their
>>>website, I'm fine with that. I don't mind who does it, as
>> long as we
>>>do something to increase our communication and ability to
resolve
>>>issues. I think email is great for "Hey, I found this
interesting
>>>article." but when it comes to actually planning goals and
>> getting
>>>things done, it can be too slow and disorganized for my tastes.
>>>
>>>-Reid
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>>>games_access at igda.org
>>>http://seven.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/games_access
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>> losing hope. it's hard for many people 
>> to believe that there are extraordinary 
>> things inside themselves, as well as 
>> others. i hope you can keep an open 
>> mind.
>> -- "unbreakable"
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these are mediocre times and people are 
losing hope. it's hard for many people 
to believe that there are extraordinary 
things inside themselves, as well as 
others. i hope you can keep an open 
mind.
 -- "unbreakable"
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